Posts Tagged ‘white screen of death’

I was starting to get the white screen of death when playing Battlefield 2 Bad Company through Steam. I have researched and googled and tried the various changes such as underclocking the video card to renaming the executable used to launch the game to just “bf2.exe”. I even forced my graphics to be in DirectX9 mode by editing the settings.ini file. Nothing worked. The problem seemed to be that my video card was breaking.

I later discovered that my video card, an EVGA 9800GT, was starting to have more severe problems. I started getting artifacts and random lock ups during boot up of my computer and throughout the day when I wasn’t doing anything. I figured that this was all just coincidence in my video card nearing the end of its life. Strange, because a couple of months ago Nvidia reverted their video drivers because it caused people’s video cards to overheat. There were reports that some people had their video card broken because of those Nvidia drivers. I wonder if Nvidia has taken on a new approach of getting performance gains by severely overclocking your video card through their drivers. Perhaps it is all coincidental for me. Nonetheless, this is the 2nd video card I have gone through in 2-years. My previous one was an EVGA 8600GT that also died and started to produce artifacts and lock up my computer.

After going through 2 EVGA brand video cards, I decided to try the GIGABYTE brand. I ordered a GIGABYTE GTS250. Hopefully it will last me more than a year! I am disappointed with EVGA. They do have a lifetime warranty, but it will take weeks before I get my video card back. I plan on sending my EVGA 9800GT card back, getting it replaced, and then selling it to recoup some of the expense on my new GIGABYTE 250GTS once my new video card comes in.